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>You can literally run your own personal Mastodon instance with just 1 account in it and take part in any discussions on the "fediverse".

Yeah, and I can literally just run my own email server too.

I don't, and chances are you don't either.

Guess why.

I'm going with sendmail.cf induced PTSD for $100 on this one

I do both.

Then you know why 99.999% of the users won't, and telling someone to do it doesn't address any criticism of either system.

On the upside, I like having access to a forum that excludes everybody too stupid to run an email server.